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Reply #330 - Dec 11
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, 2008 at 6:26pm
Although the potential applications of this technology seem somewhat scary, I think it also sounds very promising.
Imagine the possibilities if they could "upload" images the same way they're downloading them. You could program your own dreams! Screw the holodeck, we've got real-time interactive brain games!
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(...wonders when WoW will go super-virtual?)
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Reply #331 - Dec 16
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First U.S. face transplant to be made
(CNN) -- The Cleveland Clinic will announce Wednesday the successful completion of a near-total face transplant surgery, a clinic spokeswoman told CNN on Tuesday.
In the surgery -- which was conducted two weeks ago by a team of eight surgeons at the Cleveland, Ohio, hospital -- 80 percent of the trauma patient's face was transplanted, the spokeswoman said. The forehead and chin were left intact.
The surgery was the first such operation done in the United States. In 2005, French doctors performed the world's first partial face transplant on a 38-year-old woman who was disfigured when she was attacked by a dog.
"I hope the successful operation will help other people like me to live again," said Isabelle Dinoire, the French woman who received a nose, lips and chin.
Give it a few more years, and we'll have a real-world example of FACE OFF!
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Reply #332 - Dec 30
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Woman kills husband with folding couch
By Denis Pinchuk
ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - A Russian woman in St Petersburg killed her drunk husband with a folding couch, Russian media reported on Wednesday.
St Petersburg's Channel Five said the man's wife, upset with her husband for being drunk and refusing to get up, kicked a handle after an argument, activating a mechanism that folds the couch up against a wall.
The couch, which doubles as a bed, folds up automatically in order to save space. The man fell between the mattress and the back of the couch, Channel Five quoted emergency workers as saying.
The woman then walked out of the room and returned three hours later to check on what she thought was an unusually quiet sleeping husband.
Police refused to comment.
The St Petersburg Emergency Services Ministry said a private rescue service removed the man's body.
Video on the television channel's website showed emergency workers sawing away the side panels of a couch to remove a man in his underwear lying headfirst between the cushions.
Emergency workers said the man died instantly.
Keep this in mind as you get ready for the wedding, Briney! No folding couches!
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(...or high-powered machinery, for that matter.)
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